Feeling betrayed by the United States, its Kurdish allies in Syria asked the Syrian government on Friday to protect them from possible attack by Turkey.
The request surprised some American officials and could help open the way for the forces of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, backed by Russia and Iran, to start retaking the Kurdish-held part of the country near Turkey’s border.
That would be a big step toward Mr. Assad’s goal of reclaiming all of Syria, upended by almost eight years of war.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/28/world/middleeast/syria-kurds-turkey-manbij.html
Russia said Syrian government forces are in control of a strategic area close to the border with Turkey that had been under the command of a U.S.-backed Kurdish militia before President Donald Trump announced his withdrawal from the country ten days ago.
“The Syrian army has taken control of Manbij,” President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters Saturday on a conference call
Once again we see it is risky business for foreign groups to throw in their lots with America.
When will the west realize that Turkey has not been any true ally to them since Erdogan was first elected. I think Assad and Russia will make reasonable terms with the Kurds, Erdogan will not. I think Assad will allow the Kurds more local autonomy than Erdogan ever would. If it came down to pitched battles between forces backed by Assad and Turkish forces, I would not defend the Turks.
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Russian and Turkish officials have reached an “understanding” on military coordination in Syria following a high-level meeting in Moscow, Russian state news outlets say
In the very first paragraph around 1/2 dozen godless Mideast tribes are mentioned. Not a single one worth a single American dollar, nor a single American life. Not a single drop of blood... not even a stubbed toe.
It's time to get our foreign policy back from the globalists, military industrial complex and chicken hawk. They've cost enough blood and money. Time to stop. Now.